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Banana Moon Day Nursery Sheffield

Ofsted: Good
(Jan 2023)
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4.3(6 parent reviews) ·Banana Moon Day Nursery, 7 Broomgrove Road, SHEFFIELD, S10 2LW · Sheffield
Number of places
66 places
Age range
0–4 yrs
Last inspected
Jan 2023
Local authority
Sheffield

About this day nursery

Banana Moon Day Nursery Sheffield offers a nurturing and secure environment for children aged 3 months to 4 years. The nursery focuses on child development through play-based learning, guided by a dedicated team of early years professionals.

They emphasise a holistic approach, providing high-quality provision and thoughtful activities tailored to individual interests. Freshly prepared meals are provided daily from a rolling three-weekly menu that changes seasonally.

The nursery values strong relationships with families, encouraging parent involvement and providing regular updates on children's progress. They believe in fostering exploration, curiosity, and excitement within their environment, offering inspiring resources both indoors and in their extensive outdoor learning spaces.

Our ethos

Banana Moon Day Nursery Sheffield offers a nurturing and secure environment, focusing on child development through play-based learning. They emphasise a holistic approach, providing high-quality provision and tailored activities. The nursery believes in fostering exploration, curiosity, and excitement, encouraging parent involvement and strong relationships with families.

What it's like

Children are happy and engaged in this warm and welcoming nursery. Staff work closely with parents from the beginning to ensure that children settle quickly and make a very positive start to their learning. Children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), make good progress overall in all aspects of their development.

Play-based learningFreshly prepared mealsStrong parent communicationDedicated outdoor space

Pricing & funding

Fees are structured around funded hours with additional charges for extra hours, meals, and consumables. Additional hours are charged at an hourly rate based on whether the child is under or over two years old. Parents can choose to opt out of the consumable charges by providing their own.

Funding accepted

Tax-Free Childcare
  • Additional hour (under 2s)£7.15 / hour
  • Additional hour (over 2s)£6.82 / hour
  • Meals/snacks£9 / day
  • Consumables£3 / day

Good to know

  • Additional hours between 5:30pm and 6:30pm are charged hourly, with separate rates for under and over twos.
  • Daily charges apply for meals and snacks including breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks.
  • A daily consumables charge applies to cover items like sun cream, trips, extra-curricular activities, and baking.
  • Parents can opt out of paying the consumables charge by providing their own supplies.
  • Tax-Free Childcare and Universal Credit childcare payments are accepted.

Key facts

Food

Freshly prepared meals and snacks (Breakfast, AM Snack, Lunch, PM Snack, Dinner, pudding)

Opening hours

7:30am - 6:30pm

Age range

3 months-4 years

Ofsted Inspection

Ofsted rating for Banana Moon Day Nursery Sheffield

Last inspected 17 January 2023 · Andrew Clark

Safeguarding effective
Overall effectiveness
Good
Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good

What it's like to attend

Children are happy and engaged in this warm and welcoming nursery. Staff work closely with parents from the beginning to ensure that children settle quickly and make a very positive start to their learning. Children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), make good progress overall in all aspects of their development.

Inspector highlights

  • Children are happy and engaged in this warm and welcoming nursery.
  • Staff provide effective support to children with SEND. They identify gaps in children's development at an early stage and act promptly to address them.
  • Staff help children to make good progress in their personal development and good behaviour.
  • Children are strongly supported to develop a love of reading.
  • The well-qualified manager inspires her enthusiastic staff team to strive for high standards.

Areas to develop

  • 1focus staff's professional development on taking all opportunities to deepen and enrich children's vocabulary and language skills.
Inspection #10264346 · Source: OfstedView full Ofsted report

What parents say

Verbatim quotes recorded in the Ofsted inspection

Parents who live in apartments especially comment on how children are taught to climb stairs safely.

They particularly appreciate the warm and friendly nature of the staff and the good communication and guidance that they receive, such as helping children to manage their emotions and play safely together.

Inclusion & environment

How they support every child

SEND provision

Children, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), make good progress overall in all aspects of their development. Staff provide effective support to children with SEND. They identify gaps in children's development at an early stage and act promptly to address them. They plan precisely to help children to achieve key steps. Staff work closely with other professionals, such as speech therapists and local authority advisers to ensure that children achieve their potential. They provide strong support to children whose communication and social skills have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Outdoor space

Parents especially appreciate the many opportunities that children have to play in the stimulating outdoor spaces. Children develop their muscle control as they lift small objects with tweezers or learn to hop, jump and climb when they build their own obstacle courses.

Parent Reviews of Banana Moon Day Nursery Sheffield

4.3
(6)
Jess Muzyczka
a year ago

I honestly couldn’t praise this nursery enough! They’re absolutely amazing with my daughter, they supported me massively to go back into the new employed world, knowing my little girl was safe, cared for, loved and respected. Her development sky rocketed since the second she stepped foot in there! All the staff are lovely, give amazing hand overs at the end of each day and up date an app which allows everything to come through on my phone! Always positive, smiling, welcoming and give the best advice and support, to parents as well as children. The activities are carefully considered, and clearly meet the individual needs to each child. The ideas, creativity and imagination is beyond fantastic! The food is all homemade, cooked fresh and nutritious. They have plenty to eat too! Breakfast, am snack, dinner, pm snack and their tea too! Thank you to all who have spent the time with my daughter to encourage her to flourish!

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Martin L.Robinson
a year ago

This is a unreserved recommendation for Banana Moon in Sheffield. Choosing a nursery for your first child is bewildering and can be fraught with difficult feelings and stresses too. Choosing this nursery for our little boy was one of the best calls we have made as parents. He has loved his time there and we are genuinely gutted to be taking him out as we move house. From the first visit to his last day the experience has been great. The building has lots of space, and it also has great outdoor space for a quite urban setting. The staff have always been caring, professional, and very good at providing information on how he has been getting on. The app also lets us get updates on his day. All of his key workers have been very attentive and caring towards him, and they will be sorely missed. The children eat together, play together, and our son has formed his first friendships here. Being naturally quite reserved, we have witnessed his talking and social skills flourish, and he often tells us about what he's been doing and who with after pick up. The food, costs, and timings are all amongst the best we found too, hence this is an all-round recommendation. From the first shaky and angsty days, to this morning when he wanted to walk in by himself, we know our little one has had a great time here and been taken care of every step of the way. Thanks to all of the staff there, we shall miss you all!

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Catherine Byrne
2 years ago

The staff are absolutely fantastic with the children. They are all so welcoming and friendly. The food is well varied and nutritious, and the activities they do are engaging and stimulating. We are very happy with the nursery for our daughter.

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Neil R
2 years ago

Great nursery, staff are amazing, so aware and involved, great management Little one loves it!

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Loyal Shack
2 years ago

So disappointed with the hygiene of this nursery!

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Inspection history

Date: June 2017

  • January 2023Good
  • June 2017Good

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